Requires the commissioner of education to establish and enforce rules and regulations to incorporate at least a three credit course devoted to the instructional techniques necessary for effective literacy instruction which shall include delivering structured, systematic, explicit, evidence-based instruction in reading, including but not limited to those incorporating multisensory instruction for current and prospective teachers.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6713
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 5, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring the incorpo-
ration of structured, explicit, language-based multisensory approaches
to literacy instruction into at least three credits of the six credits
of literacy courses currently required for prospective teachers in
accredited college of education programs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 57 to read as follows:
3 57. The commissioner shall establish and enforce rules and regulations
4 requiring every institution of higher education that offers a graduate
5 or undergraduate degree or certification program in education or educa-
6 tional administration located within the state to incorporate at least a
7 three-credit course devoted to the instructional techniques necessary
8 for effective literacy instruction. Such course shall impart to prospec-
9 tive and current teachers language-based, effective methods of teaching
10 reading, which shall include instruction in delivering structured,
11 systematic, explicit, evidence-based instruction in reading, including
12 but not limited to those incorporating multisensory instruction, also
13 known as structured literacy, within the current required literacy
14 curriculum.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
16 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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